The splendid years of a talented lady

192 Chapter 1 Happiness Must Be Stealed ([-])
Now I heard that the child is just short of milk, although rich people hire a nanny, but this is not popular in the countryside, so it is nothing to buy a milk sheep to raise.

Su Xiazhi's words found food for the starving baby. Sitting by the bed, Min Qinglan stared blankly at her daughter's little face, shedding tears without knowing it...

In a month's time, she went from death to life, and now watching her daughter go from birth to death, she felt powerless that she was useless!

It turns out that such a shrewd self is really like what my sister-in-law said: what else can you do besides calculating the little granary expenses of your brothers?
That's right, apart from being able to calculate the little money of her natal brother, she doesn't even have the status to win a baby for her daughter in the Zhou family!
It has been a month since the daughter was born, and the Zhou family members have limited visits to her house.

Even Zhou Cunxiao only took a symbolic look at their mother and daughter and never entered her door again!

The husband and wife have become estranged like two strangers walking together.

She took the child day and night by herself, and outsiders would not help with it.This made her exhausted after confinement, how could she take good care of her body?

The confinement meal is very rich, but how can there be a meal for confinement?She talked about lactating soup a few times, but her mother-in-law didn't make it for her, and said she was useless, and she had no milk after giving birth...

Enough is enough!She really had enough of this kind of life!
But what can she do?
What can a married woman do if she has already given birth to two daughters and cannot keep her husband's heart in check?
Min Qinglan couldn't help reaching out to the second daughter's small face: "Mother is useless, you cast the wrong baby..."

The full moon wine banquet started, and there was a sound of interlacing cups and plates in the front yard and the backyard. Everyone was busy stuffing their mouths, just thinking about eating more, and it would be best to double the gift money given today, completely ignoring it The capacity of my stomach!All of them look like they want to eat more if they want to die...

After a while, the stage set up at the door also started the gong, and when the clapper rang, the male singer entered the stage and immediately won a bumper lottery. He babbled and sang, Su Xiazhi listened to it for a while, and it was a sentence I don't understand!

I can only hear that this play is probably the tune of Kunqu Opera mentioned by later generations.

In the front yard, a table of banquets was in full swing in the main room, and the guests and hosts were enjoying themselves, and the men sitting around the table all turned red-faced and thick-necked.

Min Lansheng sat among these people with a calm face. When others toasted, he raised the cup to express his meaning and then put it down. When others made a speech, he pretended to listen carefully. In short, now, there are only people left at this table. He is still sober, even Zhou Lizheng's tongue is short when he is talking.

"Lan...Lan Sheng!" Jiu Zhuang was cowardly, three or two cats urinated in their stomachs, Zhou Cunxiao's courage was unprecedentedly bold!
He patted his brother-in-law's thigh and asked with a smile: "I heard that you often go to the academy recently, but where did you find a way to get rich?"

Zhou Cunxiao was blushing from drinking and his neck was thick. He was not yet middle-aged, and his body was already showing signs of gaining weight. Now he was turning his head to talk to Min Lansheng, so Xiucai could see his obvious double chin.

"Oh? Why do you say that?" Zhou Cunxiao said that he often went to the academy because he found a way to make a fortune, which surprised Min Lansheng.

"Don't...don't pretend!" Zhou Cunxiao pursed his lips, squinted at his brother-in-law and said in a low voice, "I've seen it all!"

As he spoke, he pointed his head with two fingers and said clearly: "The golden hairpin on your daughter-in-law's head is 'one tael of gold', right? Then a pair of hairpins costs more than ten taels of silver!"

His voice was not loud, but Zhou Cunli, the second son of the Zhou family who had been listening attentively to the conversation between the elder brother and Min Xiucai, still heard it.

Holding a glass of wine in his hand, Zhou Cunli pretended to take a sip, and quickly swept his eyes around the dining table. Seeing that the guests were all staring at his father, he felt relieved. He stretched out his chopsticks to pick up some food and put it into his mouth. Chewing tastelessly, he continued to eavesdrop on the conversation of the two people next to him.

"Ah!" Min Lansheng sighed helplessly, "Woman, I just like to throw away such trivial things!"

"Who says it's not!" Zhou Cunxiao clapped the back of his right palm to the palm of his left hand, made a crisp 'pop' sound, and said in a rather agreeable tone: "Just that coquettish girl Xiaoliu..."

The Xiaoliu that Zhou Cunxiao said was the widow who was a prostitute in the neighboring village. She called her Liu Si'er to outsiders, but in fact she was among the sisters of her family, and everyone in that village called her Fourth Sister Liu.

Fourth Sister Liu was Zhou Cunxiao's concubine, the woman who pushed Min Qinglan down the steps.

"Ahem!" Zhou Cunli coughed a few times.

Zhou Cunxiao stopped talking immediately. Although he drank a little too much, he was not drunk yet, and his mind was still sixty percent clear. When his brother reminded him, he immediately realized that he had said something wrong. So he immediately stopped the topic, picked up the wine and threw a blow at Min Lansheng, and did it himself first.

Min Lansheng lowered his eyes, pressed his palm on the wine glass, and neither spoke nor drank.It seems that he is not going to show his brother-in-law this face.

The older Zhou Cunxiao gets, the more twitchy he is, and now he's living an even more shameless life!He didn't take it seriously if his brother-in-law didn't give him a good face. He reached out and broke off the chicken feet in the big bowl in front of him, and touched Min Lansheng with his arm while chewing: "Hey, tell me, what is there?" We are all a family, and you just watched your sister and I starve to death?"

Min Lansheng still lowered her head, pondered for a moment, and whispered a person's name in a nonchalant tone.

Because he was sitting sideways to Zhou Cunxiao's side, Zhou Cunli, who was sitting behind the scholar, did not hear what he said.

Zhou Cunli pulled his chair to the left calmly, and with this movement, he was almost going to sit next to Min Lansheng.

"He?!" Zhou Cunxiao was obviously a little surprised when he heard the name: "Did all my classmates follow him?"

He threw the dirty chicken paws on the table, grabbed the tablecloth over his lap and wiped his hands.

This time Min Lansheng closed his mouth again, looking at Zhou Cunxiao, neither admitting nor denying it.

(End of this chapter)